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Man's inhumanity to man...if you're like me and trying to puzzle what provokes so much murder and meanness in this world...this author has information "from the horse's mouth". Eye opening, revealing look at what makes ordinary people become "monsters".
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Should be required reading.... A guide and a warning. To us all. History has played this out time and again. We always seek the cause or the reason? Evil?... Sometimes evil is what a person or people do? Some times it's the people. Some times those people are your neighbors...chilling. I think this is more shocking cause it's closer to my generation? All the same this should be read.
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This book is great. I enjoyed reading about the genocide from a different perspective other than that of the survivors. Yes, it is/was a horrid deal, but the insight that this book provides is wonderful for research purposes.
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I loved the book. Yet - it's hard to rate a product like that. All three books by Jean Hatzfeld (this one is the second out of trilogy) are amazing, all three should be read. However, I think only reading all of them together shows you to full extent the complexity of the problem in Rwanda today
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In Susan Sontag's powerful preface, she argues that "everyone should read Hatzfeld's book" in order to truly understand what happened in Rwanda. The most striking revelation that emerges from these interviews with Hutu farmers-turned-killers from the Rwandan genocide is that they don't really know why it happened; they were swept up in the crowd. Not swept up once, but day after day for months of arduous hunting and killing. While the farmers mention other motives (looting, old animosities), the repeated claim is that the organizers were responsible and that farmers like them just got caught up.
While the book grants some real perspective, and I'm glad that I read it, I have two major criticisms: Hatzfeld could definitely have fixed one and perhaps not the other. First, the book is choppy. Hatzfeld interviewed the Hutu killers in a Rwandan prison, and he interviewed with each one individually. However, the book is organized by themes, so the author presents a chapter entitled "The First Time" and there includes a couple of paragraphs from each prisoner describing their first killing. While this gives effectively expresses the variety of experiences, constantly jumping back and forth between the ten interviewees leaves the reader little opportunity to get to know any of them. Uninterrupted histories from each prisoner (a la Studs Terkel) would have allowed more of an opportunity to get to know each and understand them better as people.
Second, the prisoners seem so guarded that it is unclear how often we are hearing genuine insights. Of course we would expect these prisoners to be guarded, not wanting to risk damaging their chances of clemency.Read more ›
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I love the way the book was presented (a stylistic choice suitable to the topic and not at all structurally flawed as another reviewer suggests).
If you are expecting to come away with some definitive answers about the genocide... think again, as it is not the purpose of this book. The beauty of this book is that is illuminating, but somewhat open. Hatzfeld does not spoon feed the reader and he keeps the book's focus on the voices of the men he interviewed. There is a rawness about the process of human self-reflection and this book captures it, laying bare the truths and lies people tell themselves while recounting their role in the past. The human psyche is fascinating, and what people choose to share is as interesting as what we see them refuse to share. For example, some passages reveal a shocking frankness -sometimes as much a shock to the speaker as the reader. Yet, some passages reveal a distance, a cold detachedness... a refusal or incapability of the soul to either publicly or privately connect and unburden. All this said, Hatzfeld acknowledges that beyond inner turmoil, legal and other reprecussions influence what is shared and what is not.
This is a MUST READ for those who study genocide and mass violence. It is recommended for all interested others who have the maturity, respect, and the stomach to handle it.
For those not familiar with the Rwandan genocide: If you are looking for an excellent book that will help you understand a little something about what happened and why see "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda" by Philip Gourevitch. Read Gourevitch first and Hatzfeld's book afterward. You can't understand and fully appreciate this book properly -and its significant contribution -unless you have some background knowledge of the genocide.
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